fiction

StoryQuarterly: "Brewster’s Angle"

North American Review: "Underwater"

Pleiades: "Drifter"

Crab Orchard Review: "The Hamblens" 

Post Road: "What We Gained in the Winter" 

Saints+Sinners 2018: "Collecting Brass" 

Gettysburg Review: "Boatyard Holiness" 

Beloit Fiction Journal: "Waiting for Jubilee" 

Arkansas Review: "Someone to Calm Me" 

Quarterly West: "The Demon at Montgomery Hill"

The Red Clay Review: "Mrs. Tief's Mirror"

Quail Bell Magazine: "Home for Summer"

nonfiction

The Timen Stiddem Society: “Remember Fort Mims”

Southern Review of Books: “The Myth of Resilience Recast: Emi Nietfeld’s Acceptance” and “Daughters of the New Year: Narratives of Humor and Insight”

Diagram: "Still Life" 

WFSU: "Redneck"  

Quail Bell Magazine: "Where Stories Come From"  (Reprinted in CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing)

Quail Bell Magazine: "On Want" 

mental_floss: "8 Battles Fought After the War Ended"

awards

Best American Short Stories Distinguished Stories of 2022: “Underwater”

Pushcart Prize Nomination: "The Hamblens"

Finalist, Tennessee Williams Festival Fiction Contest: "Drifter"

Honorable Mention, Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose: "Drifter"

Selected as a mentee in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program

Finalist, Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest: "Collecting Brass"

Winner, Hamlin Garland Fiction Contest: "Waiting for Jubilee" 

George M. Harper Award for Outstanding Creative Writing: "Waiting for Jubilee" 

AWP Intro Journals Prize: "The Demon at Montgomery Hill" 

Colby H. Kullman Prize: "Someone to Calm Me" 

Second Place, Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest: "Someone to Calm Me" 

Shortlist, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers: "Someone to Calm Me"